Vietnam visa on arrival - scam or not

We recently received a lot of emails around the questions “is visa on arrival a scam?”, “is visa on arrival legit?” ” why the embassy told me  that it is not legit and a fraud while it looks legit?” and “which service we recommend?” and so on.

After a month of investigation, our answers to those questions are below:

1. is visa on arrival a scam or legit?

yes, it is. visa on arrival is legitimate and posted in Vietnam immigration laws: http://www.mofa.gov.vn/vi/ct_lanhsu/vbpl/nr040831084533/copy2_of_ns040830162648 - so it is endorsed by the Vietnamese Government. Our staff were at the airport (Hanoi airport) on 23rd of Sept, to look around the process at airport, there were NO problem and it took just 10 minutes to go through. (we interviewed and recorded a video and will post it soon here)

2. why the embassy told me  that it is not legit and a fraud while it looks legit?

After reviewing and interviewing some travel agents who processed this visa, our guess is that “this visa compete directly with the embassy services, that is why they will never recognize this visa as legit procedure even though it is posted clearly in Immigration Laws of Vietnam. 

We will report it to Vietnam tourism Administration since visa on arrival may be one of the key factors help boosting Vietnam tourism.

3. which service we recommend?

we recommend a few agents, one of them is My Vietnam Visa
, if you used other companies and found it good, feel free to recommend it by commenting below or email us.

You got a question on visa on arrival? kindly comment it below, we will find you an appropriate answer shortly.

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